Everyday, it seems like new allegations of sexual misconduct ruin another famous entertainer’s reputation or new scandals erupt from Washington, D.C. Already, 2018 has given Americans a lot to feel discouraged and pessimistic about. That’s why we need the Olympic Winter Games more than ever. Even when the daily news challenges our faith in this...
When a snowstorm blanketed Hillsdale on Friday and Saturday, Christ Centered Home Manager Jennifer Wagner knew the slick road could pose serious problems for her assisted living home. “This is a company. We have handicapped people here. If there’s an emergency, we have to take them to the doctor,” Wagner said. “When it snows,...
Three billboards hover above a country road outside Ebbing, Missouri, and an entire country’s social issues — race, rape, misogyny, poverty — cling to them like peeling paint. When I saw “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” on a cold Midwestern night a few weeks ago, I didn’t move for ten minutes afterward, for shock. I...
Looking at a yearbook, Judy Knapp can pick out many of her mom’s classmates; she remembers them from a decades-long “round-robin” chain letter that her mother’s friend Martha Kuehn orchestrated for six members of Hillsdale’s classes of 1937 and 1938. Now, as the last living member of the correspondence, Kuehn sends Knapp postcards to stay...
More children than ever are crawling, toddling, or running past the circulation desk and into the Hillsdale Community Library this year. The Hillsdale County Community Foundation awarded the library a grant for more than $4,500 on Jan. 3 to fund the library’s early literacy support efforts that continue to draw in more kids and...